Wrath of a Gentle Man

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It is important to note the delineation between gentleman and gentle man in this instance. The title of the song comments on how those who are slow to anger (a gentle man) are far more dangerous when they become angry than someone who merely has a short temper.

The song begins as the knight washes ashore on the beach of a village on the other side of the sea he set out to cross. He has survived his encounter with Chaotica and vanquished him, but only just barely. He gradually awakens and goes to the center of town to ask for support as he recovers. Despite his obviously bad condition, the villagers refuse him any aid purely because he fought with Chaotica and nearly lost (allegorical for wrestling with personal issues/uncertainties).

The knight becomes enraged at the regressive attitude of the town. Track 8 is his address to the people there, and more widely a criticism of hypocrisy in all forms (in the Christian church, among atheists, and everywhere in between). The townspeople in this song represent any community who professes a set of beliefs but abandons them to personally judge someone or express their disappointment.

After the knight rebukes the town, he “shakes the dust off his feet” to borrow from Matthew 10, and continues along on his journey to find the Castle.

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You've got an Axe to grind and tight closed eyes
Your contradictions come as no surprise
That you made yourself blind to your own lies
I think I'll sever my ties.

A penny is far too much for your thoughts
Your putrid mind corrupts and rots
There’s more to you than meets the ear,
Just nothing that I want to hear.

Try seeing things through another’s eyes
You don't have to lobotomize
To open someone else's mind
You have become what you despise

I won’t waste another moment on your dogma.

Obstinance: manifested. Blind-eyed, Closed-minded disaffection
Spare me your so-called “wisdom”
You’re a fake, an arrogant fraud
Save some judgement for God.

You’ve had plenty of practice preaching, why won’t you practice what you preach?

(Chorus)
You’ve got an axe to grind and tight closed eyes
Your contradictions come as no surprise
That you made yourself blind to your own lies
I think I’ll sever my ties.

Your idolatry breeds hypocrisy
Your eyes are blinded by the pride you see
That the elegy that you wrote for me
Should have ended up so differently.

You're a mockery of humanity
The incarnation of dystrophy
You're a harbinger of catastrophe
A plague, pure ruin, you are disease.

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from Castle in the Clouds, released July 9, 2015

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